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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ~Salman Rushdie

Won’t you join me in championing free speech this week by observing Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read. Do it anyway you want, I don’t care: Take a book to lunch. Or dress it up in stockings and stilettos–then fuck it silly or jerk off and cum all over it. But most of all, hold it to your heart and keep it safe.

Great Book Quotes

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ~Robertson Davies

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ~Oscar Wilde

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. ~Mark Twain

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~Cicero

Never judge a book by its movie. ~J. W. Eagan

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book. ~Dwight Eisenhower

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ~Dorothy Parker

I first read books to survive my life; then I read books to live my life; now I read books to celebrate my life. ~Angela St. Lawrence

Most Sacred First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble , and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Books from the Hit List

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Cujo by Stephen King

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Native Son by Richard Wright

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing by Maya Angelou

***Researching and putting all of the info together for this entry, I’ve had tears in my eyes more than once; fell in love with power of words–over and again; was struck heart-deep by the weight of truth which those who write always bare; and fell in love with my beautiful country all over again. If you even find your way to one of those things…I will be profoundly humbled.

6 Responses to “Get Your Rocks Off With a Banned Book”

Who would have expected that Ike was so open-minded about the importance of books? But my favorite quotation about the life-effect of books is your own. Thank you, Angela, for reminding us to celebrate — and protect — our reading freedom.

Our English language is a divine gift as are creativity and intellect. Books, the records of this creativity and intellect, are sacred chalices from which we all should regularly drink. In our world of electronic communication and vanishing patience glossed over with Xanax, in which a strong electromagnet could erase the electronic version of literature, I hoist up my tomes and yell “hooray for the printed word!” Thank you Angela.